Teodoro Criscione has been a Postdoctoral Researcher in Supply Chain Science at the Complexity Science Hub since September 2025. His research interests span both empirical and theoretical approaches to supply chain analysis, supply chain security, and related social innovations. Within the Supply Chain Science research group, he investigates the resilience of global and local supply chains. His work is highly interdisciplinary, combining network and data science, economics, and the social sciences through multi-method and cross-disciplinary research.

He earned his Ph.D. in Network Science from Central European University (Austria), a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Siena (Italy), and a Bachelor’s degree in Development Economics from the University of Florence (Italy). His doctoral thesis focused on the adoption of parallel payment systems in social and humanitarian aid, providing a quantitative impact assessment of a basic income pilot project in Berlin and a cash transfer program in Kenya, both of which used local complementary currencies.

From February 2022 to November 2024, during his Ph.D., he coordinated a research team at the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (University of Freiburg, Germany). The team, NetFi (Network Science and Financial Diaries), adopted mixed-method approaches to study the application of local complementary currency systems in basic income pilot projects.

Since January 2025, he has also been a pro bono research affiliate at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies (ILABSEM). Since 2019, he has been involved in several collaborations with the Institute for Federal Regional and Autonomy Studies at the National Research Center of Italy, some of which are still ongoing. Moreover, since June 2015, he has volunteered with the communications staff of the Research Association on Monetary Innovations, Community, and Complementary Currency Systems (RAMICS) and its associated scientific journal.